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Teachers on campus to create student
investigators
As
announced last February, a National Science Foundation grant is
funding the "Creating Student (and teacher) Investigators" Summer
Institute at ASU. The 28 high school and junior high school
teachers, who are from school districts throughout the north and
central part of the state, are learning how to integrate basic
science concepts and investigative techniques using a forensics
perspective. More than 100 students are participating, also. Dr.
Karen Yanowitz, Psychology and Counseling, is grant director.
In addition to the NSF funding, the NEA Rural and Delta Institutes
for Math/Science Education based at ASU is providing support. Check
out the
project Web page for details.
Dr. Engelken presents paper
with students
Dr. Robert Engelken,
Electrical Engineering, presented the paper, "A New Tri-solvent Bath
for Chemical Bath Deposition of Low Hazard, Photosensitive Bismuth
(III) Sulfide Films" at the 211th meeting of the Elect rochemical
Society recently in Chicago. The presentation was co-authored by
electrical engineering undergraduate research assistants Michael
Sattler, Clark Marle, David Harlan, Matthew Lemay and Matthew
Pruitt. These students have worked with Engelken in the ASU
Optoelectronic Materials Research Laboratory. The presentation dealt
with the group’s development of a new low cost and low hazard
chemical solution for formation of light-sensing photocells from the
deposited bismuth sulfide thin films. Lemay and Harlan also received
first and second place, respectively, in "Excellence in Scholarship
for Undergraduate Physical Sciences" for their presentations on
complementary research on other semiconductors at the 91st annual
meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science.
Lawrence prepares guide
for business people in
Guard
Herb Lawrence,
Small Business
 Development
Center, has compiled the
"Arkansas National
Guard Business Mobilization Planning Guide" to assist Guard members
who are business owners preparing for deployment to military duty.
He also is participating in screenings for the Guard at Camp
Robinson, and he participated in a news conference to announce the availability of the guide, which is available on the Arkansas SBDC
Web site. An estimated 10 percent of Guard personnel are
business owners.
ASU scientists will take us to
the movies
As a way to further promote public appreciation and understanding of science,
the departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Physics are announcing a film series beginning in August. "Science Flicks" will feature one
popular film each
month, followed by a panel discussion about the science that is
featured in the film. The first presentation will
be "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," on Thursday, Aug. 23,
at 6 p.m. in Lab Science 219. Other films in the series will include
"The China Syndrome," "Real Genius," "Twister," and several others. For more details
about the series, watch for an article Sunday by Dr. John M. Pratte, Chemistry and Physics, and
Dr. Al Romero, Biological
Sciences, in the science series published by The Jonesboro Sun.
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